OLD 2500 Router PW recovery help

[planzone]

Greets all -! need assitance with the pw recovery of an old 2500 router.

I have tried the usual ctrl-break after power cycling but it will not go into rom mode

the ios on it is 11.1(24) any hints tips or tricks? i have also tried several pc's thinking the keyboard was messed up but still the same result

i keep tapping that ctrl-break while boot up and also tried tapping it just once.. same results just ignores it..

[glen.grant]

If you are trying to use hyperterm get rid of it and download Tera Term off the web . Have never had it fail , do the letters look ok while it starts to boot ? Can you read it ? If so then it is a hyperterm problem with the control break which is well known.

[planzone]

Hyperterm seems to fucntion fine.. besides terra term "seems" to supprt up to com port 4.

[ajagadee]

Pete,

Please refer the below URL for password recovery on 2500 router.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps233/products_password_recovery09186a0080094795.shtml

Also, below is the link to Standard Break Key Sequence Combinations During Password Recovery

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps133/products_tech_note09186a0080174a34.shtml

I hope it helps.

Regards,

Arul

[planzone]

thanks but I already looked at those before i posted it here. Still have the issue.

[Richard Burts]

Pete

The symptoms that you describe seem to be consistent with the behavior of the standard version of Hyperterm distributed on Windows PCs. I would suggest that you load the enhanced version of Hyperterm or try some other terminal emulator (I have had good experiences with TeraTerm, I have had good experience with SecureCRT, there are many terminal emulators available).

Try a different terminal emulator and let us know whether the behavior changes.

HTH

Rick